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...Schoolboys strive to emulate him. And girls by the thousands dreamily chant his name whenever he appears ... George Best is the name, and his fans hail him as the most glamorous, most electrifying soccer player ever to come out of the British Isles. Says Danny Blanchflower, a onetime soccer great in his own right: 'Best's movements are quick, light, balletic. He is a master of control and manipulation. And with it all, there is his utter disregard for danger.' Long of hair and short of temper, Best, 23, has been a marked man since 1968, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 1/1/2006 | See Source »

...victim on your chest, you'll never outrun the past. "Unfortunately, much of the popular therapeutic view and pop psych mentality has functioned," says Schlessinger, "to keep people in self-pitying, victim mode mentality, robbing them of optimism, confidence, hope, growth and change." Instead, urges the author, strive to be a victor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 6 Books for a Better You in 2006 | 12/27/2005 | See Source »

...each department, too, should be organized to offer peer advising to prospective concentrators and sophomores who are new to their departments. Some departments already have some form of intraconcentration peer advising in place, but all departments—especially the larger ones like Government and Economics—should strive to assemble effective peer advising services. The CUE Guide, after all, can only tell students so much about any class, and it can never replace personal communication with an upperclass concentrator. No single improvement can address all of the shortcomings of student advising at Harvard. The College must make...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: New Dean, Old Problem | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

...song behind this video is pretty unambitious work from the Chemical Brothers. Amidst the din of motorized clanks and whirs, they strive for a danceable melody but botch it, the acute beats skillfully needling you towards the dancefloor before breaking off prematurely...

Author: By Elisabeth J. Bloomberg, Ben B. Chung, Bernard L. Parham, Will B. Payne, and Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Pop Screen Sleepers 2005 | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

While some courses strive to limit students to a single subject, VES 124r, “The Narrative in Painting,” is a blank canvas. The class is taught by Visiting Professor Maureen Gallace, a working artist who actually commutes from New York on a weekly basis to teach the course...

Author: By Isabel J. Boero, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Show & Tell: VES 124r, "The Narrative in Painting" | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

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